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Does any one have a detailed description of the 12 kihon for SMR Jodo? I have surfed the web and all I can find are one or two word description for each technique. Books on the subject are almose nonexistant.

It would be greatly appreciated if you could e-mail it to me or provide a link to a web site.

Thanks Jun but there are two problems with those books. 1 it costs $219 US which is about $350 CDN. That is alot for a book, any book. No book is worth $350. 2. Its in Japaneese. Did I forget to mention, I can't read Japaneese.

Thanks anyway, I was just looking for a short description of each technique.

My main art is shotokan karate (10 yrs), however I have done some aikido, judo, jujitsu and kobudo. I have always liked the jo and would like to practice with it, however, I don't have the time to enrole in an aikido class (I don't like being thrown). I realise that aikido-jo and SMR are different arts but for my purposes learning the 12 basics and a couple of kata is all I realy need for now.

I had though of M Finns book but was not sure of the content. I have Don Zier's book and found it to be very helpfull.

In fact, I think they are having a jodo seminar pretty soon. I believe he also sells a book/cd-rom with fairly detailed descriptions of the ZNKR jodo kihon and kata (just surf around on his site).

I didn't care much for Don Zier's book, even from an aikido jo perspective. In fact, I don't really care much for any books I've seen on aikido jo work. The only one I can bring myself to recommend to folks looking for a book about aikido jo (only if I must) is Dave Lowry's book.